_Lettre adressée à M. Guizot
par vingt-cinq citoyens américains,
le 1er février_ 1841.
Sir,
The undersigned, citizens of the United States of America, sojourners
in Paris, being deeply impressed with the friendly spirit and generai
excellence of the introduction to your valuable edition of the Life and
Writings of Washington, have united for the purpose of soliciting you
to sit for your picture to an American artist who has earned a high
réputation in his profession. Our ulterior purpose is to transmit the
portrait to the speakers of our Congress, and to request for it place
in the library of that body, as a permanent memorial of the profound
respect which we entertain for your personal character and intellectual
trophies, and, in particular, of the gratitude which all Americans
should feel for your liberal agency in exhibiting anew to Europe the
true nature of their Revolution and the distinctive preeminence of its
hero.
_Signatures_: E. S. Burd.--Tho. van Zandt.--Jared Sparks.--Matthew
Morgan.--Eugène Avail.--M. Brimmer.--F. P. Corbin.--Robert
Walsh.--Andrew Ritchie.--Herman Thorn.--Robert Baird.--Gas. M.
Gibbs.--Léonard Hoods, profes. of Brunswick collège, Maine.--Henry
Seybert.--R. N. Gibbes.--H. L. Preston.--M. Smiller.--H. G.
Dyar.--Charles J. Biddle.--E. C. Biddle.--J. Randolph.--J. Archer.--W.
van Reusslaer.--Tho. Warner.--Alex. van Reusselaer.